A Book on a CD!

The Illustrated Tour of Burwell is a comprehensive history of the
village of Burwell in
Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-history to the present day. With over
150,000 words (about 500 pages) of text
and around 600 illustrations - about half in full colour - it proved too big to
be published as a book,
and has been produced as an Adobe pdf file on CD.

The story of the village is told by means of an imaginary tour round the
whole of this large
and interesting parish, beginning with the Devil's Dyke and Newmarket Heath on
its southern
borders, through to the Fens in the very north.

Along the way, the streets, buildings and people of Burwell are described
with the help of
modern photographs by the author, together with historical pictures from the
Cambridgeshire
Collection at the Central Library, Cambridge and other sources, building up a
unique record of
a village with many contrasting facets.

Setting new standards in the quality of local history productions, the
Illustrated Tour should
prove an invaluable resource to anyone with a connection to Burwell itself or
an interest in
village history. An attempt has been made not to duplicate works by other
authors, and the
extensive footnotes and bibliography lead readers to discover other, often
neglected, sources
for themselves.

The Illustrated Tour is published on PC and Mac-compatible
CD-ROM. The Adobe PDF format chosen
allows the appearance of a book to be retained, but gives readers the
opportunity to adjust the
text size for ease of reading, and to zoom in on each page, bringing out all
the detail of
maps, photographs and illustrations.

Part One includes the Devil's Dyke, Newmarket Heath, Reach, the former
railway station and box
factory, the lower part of the High Street, St Mary's church, Spring Close and
Mandeville,
'Doctor's Corner', Isaacson Road and the Clunch Pits.

Part Two includes the upper part of the High Street, Pound Hill, the
Causeway, Ness Road, Ness Toll, Toyse Lane, Silver Street, the Leys, Parsonage
Lane, Low Road and Newnham.

Part Three includes North Street, Factory Drove, the Fertilizer Factory and
the Brick Factory, the Fens, the Upware Pump House, the Lode, the Weirs, the
Hall and Spring Close.